You ask whether certain information is subject to required public disclosure under chapter
552 of the Government Code. Your request was assigned ID# 123847.

The City of Dallas received a request for information relating to report number 0008323-H.
You seek to withhold this information, asserting that it is excepted from public disclosure
by section 552.108 of the Government Code and under the common-law right of privacy
which is incorporated into section 552.101 of the Government Code. You have not supplied
the responsive information for our review.

Pursuant to section 552.301(b), a governmental body is required to submit to this office
(1) general written comments stating the reasons why the stated exceptions apply that would
allow the information to be withheld, (2) a copy of the written request for information, and
(3) a copy of the specific information requested or representative samples, labeled to indicate
which exceptions apply to which parts of the documents. Pursuant to section 552.303(c) of
the Government Code, this office notified you by facsimile dated March 10, 1999, that you
had failed to submit the information required by section 552.301(b), specifically a copy of
the requested information. We requested that you provide this information to our office
within seven days from the date of receiving the notice. The notice further stated that, under
section 552.303(e), failure to comply would result in the legal presumption that the
information at issue is public. See Open Records Decision No. 497 (1988) (fact that
submitting copies for review to Attorney General may be burdensome does not relieve
governmental body of responsibility for doing so). As of the date of this letter, you have not
provided our office with the information that was requested. Therefore, as provided by
section 552.303(e), the information that is the subject of this request is presumed to be
public. In the absence of a demonstration that the information is confidential by law or that
other compelling reasons exist as to why the information should not be made public, you
must release the information in your possession to the requestor. Open Records Decision
No. 195 (1978). See also Gov't Code § 552.352 (the distribution of confidential information
is a criminal offense).

We are resolving this matter with an informal letter ruling rather than with a published open
records decision. This ruling is limited to the particular records at issue under the facts
presented to us in this request and should not be relied upon as a previous determination
regarding any other records. If you have questions about this ruling, please contact our
office.